Okay, I’m watching it on my phone now, and YouTube doesn’t let me screenshot, but I want you to see what kinds of things people say who like this movie.

Honestly? Very pod-people-coded 😱

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This is quite-literally Splashing Cold Water On Your Face: The Movie 🤣

It's happened, like, 8 or 10 times already, and she did it several times before she was even infected. Naturally, it seems like an OCD compulsion at this point 😵‍💫

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Lol! This is getting honestly hilarious. Look at the first photo, and then I'll show you why she's so smug. Read the alt-texts 😆

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Dr. Ben Driscoll, "You can easily go for a week without any sleep..."

Negative, Ghost Rider. You can do it. It's never easy, tho. I've got a handful of 7+s under my belt (wouldn't recommend it), & that's a flat no. It's hard to do, & it costs you physically & psychologically 😵‍💫

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Wearing the dead cop's skin. Love it! 😆

Okay, I'm finding things to like in this movie. It has absolutely no reverence for #police, bc they're getting fucked UP left, right and center, which totally appeals to me 🤩

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The meta of this film is that Nicole Kidman's cold-fishiness is a superpower in this universe, and that's why Dr. Bennell is useful and successful (and reads as someone who would be) 🤣

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"We'll watch each other, to make sure we don't go to sleep. The change happens during REM."

That's... kind of interesting. Again, idk that it makes any sense, really, but it's another ball to throw in the air & juggle for this story that can't juggle the balls it has.

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So the twist in this, versus Pluribus or similar, is that the aliens can't tell who is or isn't converted yet. So they're... not a hive mind, I guess?

It's odd. It feels a bit contrived that they can't tell at all if you're calm. It's very After Earth, isn't it? 😆

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Cool location! This chase scene's kinda compelling & has some deft callbacks (she hit a trash can w/ a dead dog in it a min ago, just like her patient said).

Like, there *are* things that *do* work in this, but they only serve to make the rest of it more frustrating 😖

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Lol 😆

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I've just realized that both protagonists from this & Pluribus are named Carol.

It's trippy watching this Carol have the same concerns, & get cornered by a roomful of pod-people weirdos encouraging her to join them.

Perhaps #TheInvasion2007 inspired #Pluribus in some ways? 🤔

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This is such an #antivax movie, omg. This is, like, reprehensible (in hindsight, certainly, but even at the time).

Booooo! Another great reason to hate this dreadful #movie

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The X-Files had a bit of this, too (also not a great film), but not nearly so blatant.

Whew! Resident Evil was good, wasn't it??

Back to this terrible movie, I guess 😑

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OMFG Nicole had, like, a page-and-a-half-long monologue about drivel and bullshit, and it was I SWEAR TO GOD basically just the scene from American Psycho where Patrick Bateman talks about promoting 'general social concern and less materialism among young people.' 🤣

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Guys, this honestly feels like it was written by an anti-vaxxer, but it's a 2007 film, so, like, an early-adopter to that madness. Listen to this!

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Oh, shit, y'all, this is wild.

This is an #antivax #movie. I don't *know* that it means to be (yet, idk yet), but the plot revolves around this Body Snatcher plant undertaking an 'inoculation program' that will turn everyone into mindless zombie slaves 😆

Whoops! 😬

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Jeffrey Wright is great, and I'm always happy to see him turn up in anything, even this.

Have you seen American Fiction? That was a great vehicle for him, I think. He was also awesome in HBO Westworld. Just a tremendous talent.

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Bahahaha 🤣

Yeah, he would say, "Carol, what are you doing here?" if he walked out of the room he'd just been holding a child in to see her.

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It's not super feminist of me to weigh in, but...

I think Nicole Kidman is pretty/beautiful like angels in the Bible are said to be beautiful (and terrible). It's honestly scary, and possibly even terrifying in person, kind of like how I imagine Galadriel 😱

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The title card, like everything else so far, sucks total shit.

However, this found-footage-y newsreel moment did absolutely kill me. I wonder when that got added. That feels a late addition to try to give this #film SOME charm. It worked... a bit.

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